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S. B. MANLEY. oBsTBTme SUPPORTER.

No. 68,521. Patented Sept. 3, 186'7 i @ff/3 @ZN/QW@ @am We# y T n Norms Frans co. PNoYcxurHo. wAsHms'roN, n.

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Letters Patent No. 68,521, dated September 3, 1867.`

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Be it knownrthat I, S. B. MANLEY, of Corry, Erie county, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Obstetrical Supporters andI do hereby declare' that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to-make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The principal obstetrical supporters as heretofore made could only be used in ordinary cases of obstetrical labor, and where but little assistance was needed, and iti diticult cases ofvobstetrical, especially instrumental labor, and when the back ofthe patient wns.tender,nnd the patient much exhausted, would not afford or render the assistance desired or required.

By the present invention an 'obstctrical supporter is provided that, in all casesof obstetrics, is eiicient and serviceable, and is so constructed and arranged in its several parts that, when applied, any and every exertion made by the patient, whether with the feet, hands, or knees, will impart all the necessary and desired assistance to the obstetrical labors of the patient.

In the accompanying plate of drawings my improved obstetrical supporter' is illustrated, the figure being a view of the same, showing it applied to the form of a woman. I

Similar' letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A, in the drawings, represents the back-strap, which is provided with a pad, B, made of India rubber or other similar or suitable material, and provided with a valve-plug, C, suitable for filling it with `air to inflate it, and thus make an air-cushion ofit, this cushion B coming against the middle of the patients back when worn or applied. D, loops, with buckles E, one at each cnd of the back-strapH, to which loops, by their buckles, the side-straps F are buckled. Each oi' these side-straps F is separated or split into two straps G, that pass through rings H, connected together' by an elastic band or strip, I, and terminate in stued handles J, for een` venience and ease in grasping them.

The side-straps F, when the supporter is worn, pass from the'bac'k, along the outside of and over the legs, as shown in the drawings, with the elastic handvI across tho t'ront of the knee, and its rings H upon cach side of the same, from which, around and under the foot, a continuons elastic strap or belt, Il, extends, that, at each end, is hung in the said rings H.

By the elastic and air-cushion to thc back-strap, with its connectingr side-straps, elastic knee-bands, and

elastic foot-straps, it is plainly apparent that any and every exertion made by the patient in obst-otrical labor n will impart, through the supporter, all the necessary and desired assistance.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The elastic or air-cushion B, provided with side-straps F, and elastic knee -and foot-bands or straps, substantially as and for thopurpose described.

The above specification of my 'invention signed by lne this day of 1867.

S. B. MANLEY. Witnesses:

A. W. HIGHER,

WM. B. PIER. 

